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November: What're you Reading?

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Well I’m about halfway done with it… and well its very well written and I can’t but it down, but man is it screwed up. I would like to post some of the book on here but I think that kind of subject matter would get me banned. But I am going to check out his other works after I finish some other books on my shelf.

Going to finish Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions.
For the rest of the month I'll be running through
Ham on Rye
Requirm for a dream
You shall know our velocity!
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Reread: Do androids dream of electric sheep
Survivor
Dosadi Experiment
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Kiss Me, Judas

and most likely during Thanksgiving weekend, I will get around to buying and reading Clevenger's Contortist Handbook and Danielewski's House of Leaves.

Probably, most of us have at least read a few of them. [i]On the Road[/i] is fan-fucking-tastic, but my fav is the very short novel [i]Tristessa[/i] because of its brutal honesty and the people struck something very personal in me, I guess, and it's easy to burn burn burn through the read.

On The Road is awesome. I think I finished that book in two or three sittings. It has that feel where you just can't put it down.

Another book that I liked by Kerouac, that is more of a "classic" style, is The Town and The City. I thought that book was amazingly well written and just a really good book in general. It's a little longer read, but well worth it.

Yeah, PG, I think that was the only conventional book that he ever wrote. Definitely worth the read. Had it in my bathroom for two months. Bathroom reading is very selective for me: it's the book that you always go back to no matter what you are doing day to day, or what else you are reading.

: runs to bathroom to see what I put there yest :

Ahh, a biography: [i]Holler if You Hear Me: Serching for Tupac Shakur[/i] by Dyson.

I'm now on the first few pages of Vonnegut's [i]Breakfast of Champions[/i].
It's my first Vonnegut and I am really stunned by his humor. More reading tonight after another boring day of labour.

I started re-reading this book which I started earlier in the about 100pages in. Has to do with me leaving something down for more than two days. If I do that, I have to start over. Well I started reading this around 9pm sunday and took a break around 1am and 3am. Have the last 80 pages to go and loving it.

I just finished Penny Dreadful and there were loads of things that I loved about it.

Firstly there's the character of Phineas. He's always being injured and things go so wrong for him, you get the idea that your hold on him is so tenuous you want to savour his every word and action while you still have the chance.

He's funny too.

The whole idea of-I hate this word, but-microcosms, a little world all on its own with all the inhabitants thinking it's the most serious, important thing of all time:

Quote:

The stuff that seems so important to your other self, your daylight self, is just funny. You wonder how you ever believed in anything.

The way Phineas is distanced from the game but attatched by his relationships to Eve, Crumb, Griffin reminds me of feeling like I didn't quite fit in, looking at my friends at work or school and just laughing at how seriously they take everything. Like if it got really busy at work and my co-workers would get so stressed as if they were in charge of the store, as though what happens in this one tiny store is going to have a massive effect on the world. It's a silly analogy, I know.

Anyway. I'm going to read a book on James M. Cain now that I have to have back at the library tomorrow.

i just got in The Hemingway Cookbook, can't wait to try out some of the recipes in it, and the drink mixes. should be easy stuff, nothing calls for any impossible-to-find too-expensive-to-eat ingredients...

that's about it for november, but the pynchon i've been working on for months. that bad boy just doesn't want to be put down. over 700 heavy duty pages. still, i was warned that reading it would be a challenge. anyone here read it?

just found out that i have to add "The Circuit: Stories from the life of a migrant child" by Francisco Jimenez for work as well. after that will be "Esperanza Rising" and another latin-american culture book. admin's decided that we need to "capitalize on the growing subculture of lantinos in our region" by offering race specific programs and book discussions. can anyone else spot the flaws in that thinking? hmmmm?

Great poem! And a smashing good read - esp if you intend on reading all of the literature that he refers to in the liner notes.

See you in a few months Cindy ;)

Look me up when you get here. Going to Purdue I gather?

And I just finished reading a Pinter play "The Dumb Waiter".
I'm not much for The Absurb Genre of the modernism/post modernism. I know everyone here loves this Genre/era of reading, but I'm not a fan. And if I should ever read another Hemmingway book again, then I will shoot MYSELF in the head. God! But I do respect his ethics of writing dialogue and revision.

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